Hey Rachel, what's the story with Blindfold?

Ruth Aldine, uh, Telepath, precognitive, she was first introduced during the Weedon

Cassidy run, no eyes.

Yeah, what's with that?

Well, I mean, historically, blindness is coupled pretty closely with the whole

precognitive thing, especially in what's probably her family.

Her family?

Assuming she's actually Destiny's granddaughter, that's never actually been explicitly confirmed, but it's pretty heavily implied.

Huh. And the weird syntax, is that part of the whole precognitive thing too?

What, no, no, no, that's because her brother ripped apart her mind during his execution.

How's that work?

It's complicated, honestly, I'm pretty fuzzy on the details, but I imagine Cy Spurrier would know.

Yeah, good call.

Hey, Cy, so what's the deal with Blindfold and her brother?

Oh, it's very simple.

Luca was this hateful racist, bigoted little shit, who hated his mutant sister, killed his own mother,

got executed for his trouble and in some gloriously ambiguous way, which may arguably

hint that he himself was a mutant because can you feel the irony, was magically able to rip out a decent portion of Ruth's powers,

most particularly her ability to perceive and manipulate chaotic brownian chains of reaction,

thereafter using them to distill his own essence into an abstract motive

force occupying his own disembodied eyeballs

and then go swooping off to cook up trouble.

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